64 pages • 2 hours read
Haruki MurakamiHard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more.
Essay Topics
1.
Compare and contrast the hard-boiled narrator (in odd-numbered chapters) with the narrator at the end of the world (even-numbered chapters)?
2.
What role does memory play in the formation of identity? How does the novel grapple with this question?
3.
How does being confronted with his own mortality impact the narrator’s opinions about the nature of existence?
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